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ArticleRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo2023

A story of a lone star tick: an imported case of Amblyomma americanum (Linnaeus, 1758) infected with Rickettsia amblyommatis that parasitized a US traveler returning to Mexico.

Patricia Volkow, Estefania Grostieta, Beatriz Salceda-Sánchez, Herón Huerta-Jiménez, Virginia Alcántara-Rodríguez, Ingeborg Becker, Sokani Sánchez-Montes

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Article in Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Patricia VolkowInstituto Nacional de Cancerología, Departamento de Infectología, Ciudad de México, México.
Estefania GrostietaUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Medicina, Centro de Medicina Tropical, Ciudad de México, México.
Beatriz Salceda-SánchezSecretaría de Salud, Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos, Laboratorio de Entomología, Ciudad de México, México.
Herón Huerta-JiménezSecretaría de Salud, Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos, Laboratorio de Entomología, Ciudad de México, México.
Virginia Alcántara-RodríguezSecretaría de Salud, Unidad Departamental de Vigilancia Epidemiológica, Ciudad de México, México.
Ingeborg BeckerUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Medicina, Centro de Medicina Tropical, Ciudad de México, México.
Sokani Sánchez-MontesUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Medicina, Centro de Medicina Tropical, Ciudad de México, México.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6316-2187
Secretaria de Salud · MXUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México · MXInstituto Nacional de Cancerología · MXUniversidad Veracruzana · MX

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, we report the presence of a female Amblyomma americanum tick attached to a former resident of the East Coast of the United States who moved to Mexico city. The amplification and sequencing of gene fragments of the 16S-rDNA and cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 corroborated the identification of the species of the tick. Additionally, the presence of DNA of Rickettsia amblyommatis was confirmed. This work is the first report of an exotic tick of the genus Amblyomma in a traveler from the US to Mexico and represents the second record of an imported tick attached to humans in Mexico.

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IxodidaeRickettsiaAmblyommaAnimalsFemaleHumansMexicoUnited States

Identifiers

PMID37283412
PMCPMC10243523
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